Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Sir Robin Jacob's new edition of Guidebook to IP

I had the pleasure of being paired with Sir Robin Jacob in Rochelle Dreyfuss & Jane Ginsburg's forthcoming volume on IP at the Edge; my contribution is about Barbie and copyright/trademark defenses. Sir Robin, Daniel Alexander QC and Matthew Fisher have just released the 6th edition of their Guidebook to Intellectual Property.

According to the publisher:

This is a unique book about Intellectual Property. It is aimed not only at law students studying the subject but also at interested users of IP - business people, inventors, scientists, designers and the like. It provides an outline of the basic legal principles which underpin and regulate the subject, educating the reader as to the shape of the law. However, critically, it also gives insight into how the system actually works. . . . There are no footnotes to distract. Although cases are, inevitably, referred to they are explained in a pithy, accessible manner. The authors try wherever possible to be both serious and light-hearted at the same time.
All major areas of IP - patents, trade marks, copyright and designs -are covered, along with briefer treatment of other rights and subjects such as breach of confidence, plant varieties and databases.
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